LUCID

Friday 11/12/2009 14:30

For our final Friday afternoon colloquium of the year, on 11th December, we’re delighted that Becky Parker of the Langton Star Centre and some of her pupils from the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys will give a presentation about ‘LUCID (Langton Ultimate Cosmic-ray Intensity Detector) – putting a CERN detector in space and in schools’. The presentation is based upon the Langton’s astonishing show at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition earlier this year, which prompted several simultaneous suggestions from here in Physics to enlist Becky and her team for an end-of-year colloquium. This colloquium will be of very general interest, and undergraduates will, as always, be most welcome.

The Langton Star Centre at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys is working closely with CERN and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited to put a new design of cosmic ray detector into space. This will be linked to an array of school detectors with the aim of giving students the opportunity to be involved in real physics research when they are at school. The wealth of data expected will make use of the facilities of the GridPP. We are hoping that working in this way with CERN technology will enthuse students and encourage them to consider taking physics and engineering further.
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